The Kaiser's Lackey

The Kaiser's Lackey (1951)


  • Genre: Drama, History, Comedy
  • Release Date: 1951-08-31
  • User Rating: 6.5/10 from 23 ratings
  • Runtime: 1h 49min
  • Language: Deutsch
  • Production Company: DEFA
  • Production Country: East Germany
  • Director: Wolfgang Staudte
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Summary

Diederich Heßling is scared of everything and everyone. But as he grows up, he comes to realize that he has to offer his services to the powers-that-be if he wants to wield power himself. His life motto now runs: bow to those at the top and tread on those below. In this way, he always succeeds: as a student in a duel-fighting student fraternity and as a businessman in a paper factory. He cajoles the obese district administrative president Von Wulkow and wins his favor. He slanders his financial rivals and hatches a plot with the social democrats in the town council. On his honeymoon with his rich wife Guste, he finally finds a chance to do his beloved Kaiser a favor. And when a memorial to the Kaiser is unveiled in the town where Diederich lives and works, he delivers the address. He stands behind the lectern in the pouring rain, saluting his Kaiser. The crowd is dispersed. Everything is laid in ruins...

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  • Werner Peters

    as Diederich Heßling
  • Paul Esser

    as Regierungspräsident von Wulckow
  • Blandine Ebinger

    as Frau von Wulckow
  • Renate Fischer

    as Guste Daimchen
  • Carola Braunbock

    as Emmi Heßling
  • Emmy Burg

    as Magda Heßling
  • Sabine Thalbach

    as Agnes Göppel
  • Friedel Nowack

    as Mrs. Göpel
  • Friedrich Maurer

    as Göpel
  • Erich Nadler

    as Father Heßling
  • Gertrud Bergmann

    as Mother Heßling
  • Ernst Legal

    as Zillich
  • Raimund Schelcher

    as Dr. Wolfgang Buck
  • Eduard von Winterstein

    as Buck sen.
  • Hannsgeorg Laubenthal

    as Mahlmann
  • Friedrich Gnaß

    as Napoleon Fischer
  • Wolfgang Kühne

    as Dr. Mennicke
  • Fritz Staudte

    as Kühlemann
  • Wolfgang Heise

    as von Brietzen
  • Axel Triebel

    as Major Kunze
  • Arthur Schröder

    as Landgerichtsdirektor
  • Paul Mederow

    as Dr. Heuteufel
  • Friedrich Richter

    as Lauer
  • Heinz Keuneke

    as Gottlieb Hornung
  • Ernst Wehlau

    as Sötbier
  • Antje Ruge

    as Virgin of Orleans
  • Kurt-Otto Fritsch

    as Young Worker
  • Viola Recklies

    as Young Worker
  • Oskar Höcker

    as Fritzsche
  • Georg August Koch

    as Medizinalrat
  • Martin Rickelt

    as
Directing Wolfgang Staudte Director
Writing Wolfgang Staudte Screenplay
Writing Fritz Staudte Screenplay
Writing Heinrich Mann Novel
Editing Johanna Rosinski Editor
Sound Horst Hans Sieber Music
Camera Robert Baberske Director of Photography

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